Self-educators hit roadblocks learning Python when tutorials over-rely on external Python modules. Read for a prescription to prevent burnout and confusion. (more…)

This book provides a reader with a holistic and in-depth knowledge of the Python language. It explains how methods and functions are related, how sequences can be created elegantly, the tools for functional programming, how user defined objects can be no ...

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn what Python descriptors are and how they're used in Python's internals. You'll learn about the descriptor protocol and how the lookup chain works when you access an attribute. You'll also see a few practical exa... (more…)

Python makes concurrency easy. It took less than an hour to add multiprocessing to my blog engine, First Crack, and I have used it often since. Everyone likes to call premature optimization the root of all evil, but architecting programs for concurrent ex... (more…)

data_hacks - Command line utilities for data analysis... (more…)